Vacation

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As you may have deduced from the lack of posts this week, I'm on vacation. But don't worry-- lots more good stuff coming up once I'm back next week!

Americans in World War Two

Part Two of a Memorial Day weekend series. "Americans in World War Two" is about as broad as you get, and I haven't even tried to encapsulate it; rather I've selected a collection of compelling photographs in the general spirit of remembering those who fought and what they had to go through.

A medic gives blood plasma to a wounded soldier, Sicily, 1943. Source

Wounded soldiers await evacuation on Omaha Beach, France, 1944. Source

Infantrymen firing mortars (& holding their ears as they do) after crossing the Rhine, Germany, 1945. Source

American soldiers coming ashore under fire, D-Day, 1944. Source

Troops carry causalities, the Philippines, 1945. Source

An infrantryman runs across an open field on a sortie, Belgim, 1944. Source

Soldiers marching through the Siegfried Line, Germany, 1945. Source

Soldiers huddle together while crossing the Rhine under heavy enemy fire, Germany, 1945. Source

A soldier tends to a wounded comrade, Okinawa, 1945. Source

An American soldier just back from the front lines at the Battle of the Bulge, Belgium, 1945. Source

A soldier grabbing some sleep in a lined foxhole, Italy, 1944. Source

Food being served to soldiers on the way to the front line at the Battle of the Bulge, Belgium, 1945. Source

Soldiers marching along a desert roadway in Tunisia, 1943. Source

Medics carrying a casualty from the battlefield, France, 1944. Source

German POWs carry the body of an American soldier killed in the Battle of the Bulge, Belgium, 1945. Source

A medic recommended for a Silver Star for setting up a dressing station and helping over 330 servicemen on the beaches of Normandy at D-Day, France, 1944. Source

Exhausted Marines after two days of fighting on Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands, 1944. Source

Graves of soldiers killed in the battle for Tarawa Atholl, Gilbert Islands, 1944. Source

A Coastguardsman bows his head at the grave of a comrade, the Pacific, 1944. Source